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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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s of graymoss, was magnificent. Well withinthe radius of the light a possum watchedus impudently from his own stump,aware, no doubt, that Abners gun wasout of reach. Chameleons slept withus on our mossy bed. In the morningwe put one of them on a red blanket,but he failed to pass the test. The main part of the KissimmeeRiver occupied us for a week. I haveno hesitation in affirming that it is thecrookedest river in the world, thoughI havent seen them all. It would bringus almost to the edge of a hammockthat we wished to make, only to turnits back on it, and we could paddle formiles back and forth, north, south, eastand west, never quite losing sight of thehammock, yet never quite getting there.In places the bank had given way, andthe water rushing through suggested ashort cut, but after we had lost our-selves a few times in a wilderness ofgrass and hyacinth, we decided it wouldpay to exert strength of mind and stickto the main current, however crazy thecourse it pursued. We often wished
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518 THE OUTING MAGAZINE for an airship to look down from aboveand see what that river really was doing.However, there was a good currentwhich flattered us that we were doinggreat execution with our paddles. In other respects the Kissimmee Riveris peculiar. It has dug a canal for it-self through vast watery meadows,throwing up banks on either hand asneatly as a steam-dredge. One wonderswhy it preferred such a crooked canal.Standing up in the canoe and lookingover the bank, the scene was almosttheatrical in its loveliness. As far as the eye could see stretcheda vast flat sea of vivid green, rolling un-der at the horizon. Here and thereat immense distances would be placed agroup of palms or a single tree, justright. These watery prairies supporteda race of beasts peculiar to the locality.Hearing a tremendous snorting andsplashing issuing from the tall grass we

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